Meatless Meat

Food startup Just Inc., re-branded from Hampton Creek, doesn’t think the alternative for meat is just in plants -- but in meat itself.

Settlement discussions are under way over a lawsuit challenging a Missouri measure making it a misdemeanor crime to promote plant-based food products as “meat.”

Competition is growing for meat from alternative sources.

South Carolina has passed a new law that keeps protein grown in a laboratory from stem cells as advertising as “meat.”

Beef production, and I agriculture in general, has become a pretty contentious issue over the past several years. Most often, the criticism is directed at us while we try to defend ourselves in a graceful manner.

While the development of fake meat is in its infancy, its goals are lofty.